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TY - JOUR
T1 - Viewpoint in linguistic discourse
T2 - space and evaluation in news reports of political protests
AU - Hart, Christopher
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Discourse Studies on 24/03/2015, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17405904.2015.1013479
PY - 2015/5
Y1 - 2015/5
N2 - This paper continues to develop a program of research which has recently emerged investigating the ideological functions of spatial construals in social and political discourse from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective (Cap 2013; Chilton 2004; Dunmire 2011; Filardo Llamas 2013; Hart 2013a/b, 2014a; Kaal 2012). Specifically, inspired by principles in Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 2008), the paper attempts to formulate a grammar of ‘point of view’ and show how this trans-modal cognitive system is manifested in the meanings of individual grammatical constructions which, when selected in discourse, yield mental representations whose spatial properties invite ideological evaluations. The link between spatial organisation and ideological evaluation in these mental models, it is argued, is a function of our embodied understanding of language. These theoretical arguments are illustrated with data taken from online news reports of two political protests.
AB - This paper continues to develop a program of research which has recently emerged investigating the ideological functions of spatial construals in social and political discourse from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective (Cap 2013; Chilton 2004; Dunmire 2011; Filardo Llamas 2013; Hart 2013a/b, 2014a; Kaal 2012). Specifically, inspired by principles in Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 2008), the paper attempts to formulate a grammar of ‘point of view’ and show how this trans-modal cognitive system is manifested in the meanings of individual grammatical constructions which, when selected in discourse, yield mental representations whose spatial properties invite ideological evaluations. The link between spatial organisation and ideological evaluation in these mental models, it is argued, is a function of our embodied understanding of language. These theoretical arguments are illustrated with data taken from online news reports of two political protests.
KW - critical discourse analysis
KW - cognitive grammar
KW - mental models
KW - space
KW - evaluation
KW - embodiment
U2 - 10.1080/17405904.2015.1013479
DO - 10.1080/17405904.2015.1013479
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 238
EP - 260
JO - Critical Discourse Studies
JF - Critical Discourse Studies
SN - 1740-5904
IS - 3
ER -